Quiet part out loud 👀

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Whenever Democrats are faced with a choice between a popular morally correct position & sucking up to big money, they pick the latter

Oh hey, it's a documentary on OpenAI!

Stop what you're doing: the AI revolution is upon us. You may soon be able to use ChatGPT as ... a timer.

Guess I'll scrap my plans for an oil-powered stopwatch that spews emissions equal to 600 km in a Ford F-150 per second and that sprays clean drinking water all over the place like a firehose.

A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint.

We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin)

www.linkedin.com/posts/gwitte...

Green Economic Populism argues that effective policy interventions should be: Green: Improve working class lives through tangible climate policy that cuts carbon pollution and increases resilience Economic: Grow working class agency by rapidly lowering costs, breaking up the oligarchy, investing in high-quality public goods, and creating good jobs Populist: Build working class power against the elites driving climate and economic crises

A working class climate agenda connects climate politics to economic issues that affect working people, and builds a strong public sector. This approach is rooted in a framework called Green Economic Populism. (5/10)

popularresistance.org/ai-used-agai...

1 in 10 Google AI search summaries are wrong (google’s own internal testing of Gemini puts it closer to 1 in 4). Using AI as a question and answer machine—like 99% of AI-based ed tech—is choosing misinformation.

if anyone's interested in sharing, i'm looking for fun stories of individuals & communities pushing back against AI in various forms. examples on my mind already:

- DeFlock
- anti-data center movements/successes
- blocking/neutralizing Waymos

stuff like that. suggestions welcome

that's why they created ideas like "ai literacy"

they need to convince themselves that the general public is simply too stupid currently to appreciate it (even if it means your extremely credulous uncle on facebook is among these 'ai literates')

nah this is real. every consumer survey says people want AI out of X and the response is more AI in X. at some point 'we know what you want better than you do' stops being a feature and starts being a problem

I’ve never seen an industry try to push something so hard that the general public does not want. “Guys we spent too much money on this, you gotta use it even if you don’t want”. Tech bros ruined everything.

"AI literacy" in schools means knowing how to prompt ChatGPT.

Not who owns the output. Not what it costs the planet. Not whose labor trained it.

Consumers. Not citizens.

#raisewages

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..

We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.

And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!

1/

when data centers “engage in local agreements to waive property tax burdens” for 10, 20, even 30 years—local institutions like schools and libraries do not actually see the illusory promise of increased tax revenue

Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...

In her inspired and inspiring history of the Jewish Bund, Molly Crabapple has found her anti-Zionist heroes for our time Though written for this political moment, 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' is more of a history and a tribute than a handbook

forward.com/culture/8170...

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

🤖🫧💥

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A friendly reminder that feeling unsafe doesn’t mean we’re in actual danger.

If the sight of poverty makes you uncomfortable, because suspicious, please call for a stronger social safety net, not for increased policing.

What Does Judaism Look Like Without Zionism?

We have to celebrate when we can. My dear friend @mollycrabapple.bsky.social has worked for a decade on her anti-Zionist book Here Where We Live Is Our Country. It’s so gratifying to see it earn rave reviews. 🎁

very funny not ha ha funny to see everyone learning about the demonic resnick family who controls most of californias water and lobbies against iran and donates to the IOF among other evil things and remember the ucla health press release lauding them a couple months ago for a massive donation lol

Besides, Mossad’s intelligence indicated that street protests inside Iran would begin again and — with the impetus of the Israeli spy agency helping to foment riots and rebellion — an intense bombing campaign could foster the conditions for the Iranian opposition to overthrow the regime. The Israelis also raised the prospect of Iranian Kurdish fighters crossing the border from Iraq to open a ground front in the northwest, further stretching the regime’s forces and accelerating its collapse.

The NYT straight up reports that Mossad is responsible for fomenting protest in Iran.

Congratulations to all who have collaborated.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Just got an invite to try a new AI tool that "creates conversational replicas of scholars trained on their own writing." The sender claims it connects to my "collaborative, care-centered approaches...[to] DH infrastructure." WTF this is totally counter to my human-centered and relational approach 🤯

everyone is screaming, from the posts to the books to the pundits, about how everyone is critical but they don’t have solutions, while those with some semblance of a solution act like they don’t have responsibility, leverage, or power. i hate it here!

The BBC just helped normalise nuclear extermination.

This is insane.

That's not the only place/way I would use the word, I should say -- just highlights the shape of what I'm trying to get at.

"Incursion" and "Encroachment" could work too in some contexts!

But also still want a word that, like "boom," could kinda stand alone, e.g. as part of a list of contemporary crises/problematic things: "[crisis #1 noun + modifier], [alternative to "AI boom'], and the [crisis #3 as noun + mod] have"